For Bookworms: The 2015 AFAR Gift Guide

By Andrew Richdale and Jennifer Lee

10.20.15

From the November/December 2015 issue

share this article

The Voorhes

Article Continues Below Ad

share this article

We’re strong believers that books always make a great gift and we’ve got every type of reader on your list covered here: literary novels that will make you want to book a flight, gorgeous coloring books filled with international sites, and a coffeetabler full of French miscellany that will lure every guest in your home to pick it up.

Photo courtesy of Ten Speed Press

Chef Russell Moore transformed Oakland’s food scene with his wood-fired fare. In This Is Camino ($35), he shares his story and recipes.

Photo courtesy of Chronicle Books

The Fantastic Citiescoloring book ($15) contains mandala-like grids of busy Rio favelas and the New York skyline.

Photo courtesy of Phaidon Books

Jutaku ($25) surveys sly Japanese architecture, from fishtank-like apartments in Tokyo to remote barns in Hokkaido that are anything but humble.

Photo courtesy of Princeton Architectural Press

For that moment when you’re sitting at a coffee table but you’d rather be staring at beautiful old Parisian signs, there’s Graphique de la Rue ($40).

Photo courtesy of Penguin Press

If anything could inspire someone to pick up surfing, it’s Barbarian Days ($28), a memoir by New Yorker staffer William Finnegan that surges from Fiji to Madagascar.